GAME 1 BOX
SCORE GAME 2 BOX
SCORE
BRIARCLIFF, N.Y. - Southern New Hampshire
University and Pace University split a Northeast-10 softball
doubleheader Sunday afternoon. The Setters took a 5-2 win in
the opener, while the Penmen posted a 10-4 victory in the
nightcap. SNHU improved to 9-11 overall and 7-1 in the NE-10,
while the Setters are now 11-10 and 5-3 in the league.
In game two, the Penmen, trailing
3-1 at the time, scored five times in the top of the third to take
a 6-3 lead. SNHU got a two-run single off the bat of
Andrea
Clausi (Kingston, NY), then a three-run home run from
Melissa
Pessotti (Burlington, MA) as the Penmen collected a
total of five hits in the inning. Southern New Hampshire
would get another run in the sixth and three more in the
seventh. Clausi led off the seventh with a home run while
Michelle
Maranto (Hampstead, NH) delivered a two-run double.
Maranto had three hits for Southern
New Hampshire in the opener while Clausi, Elena Anderson
(Salem, WI), Valerie Martins
(Somerset, MA) and Amanda Barton
(Franklin, NH) all had two hits apiece in the second game as the
Penmen had a total of 14 hits. Ashley Bernstein
(Stoughton, MA) earned the win for SNHU, allowing seven hits and
four runs.
In the opener, SNHU staked itself
to a 1-0 lead in the third when Clausi led off the inning with a
home run. That lead would stand until the bottom of the
fourth when the Setters scored three times, then the hosts would
score twice in the fifth to take a 5-1 lead. The Penmen
scored their other run in the sixth when Melissa
Vitagliano (Bedford, NH) led off with a double, and
Rachel
Dobinski (Hopkinton, MA), pinch-running for
Vitagliano, scored on an RBI groundout by Martins.
Anderson had the other SNHU hit in
the opener as Pace's Kiryl Shada held the Penmen to just three
hits. Barton worked 1.1 innings of relief on the mound for
the Penmen and took the loss.
Southern New Hampshire returns to
action Wednesday when it hosts Saint Anselm in a 3:00 doubleheader.
